Publications

Advanced modeling and simulation to design and manufacture high performance and reliable advanced microelectronics and microsystems

Ewsuk, Kevin G.; Hinklin, Thomas R.; Neilsen, Michael K.; Tandon, Rajan T.; Arguello, Jose G.; Dempsey, James F.; Holcomb, David J.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers having broad expertise in materials processing and properties, materials characterization, and computational mechanics was assembled to develop science-based modeling/simulation technology to design and reproducibly manufacture high performance and reliable, complex microelectronics and microsystems. The team's efforts focused on defining and developing a science-based infrastructure to enable predictive compaction, sintering, stress, and thermomechanical modeling in ''real systems'', including: (1) developing techniques to and determining materials properties and constitutive behavior required for modeling; (2) developing new, improved/updated models and modeling capabilities, (3) ensuring that models are representative of the physical phenomena being simulated; and (4) assessing existing modeling capabilities to identify advances necessary to facilitate the practical application of Sandia's predictive modeling technology.